Yingluck Shinawatra

Yingluck Shinawatra (21 June 1967-) was Prime Minister of Thailand from 5 August 2011 to 7 May 2014, succeeding Abhisit Vejjajiva and preceding Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan. She was the younger sister of Thaksin Shinawatra and a member of the Pheu Thai Party, and she was overthrown and forced to flee her country after a 2014 military coup under Prayut Chan-o-cha.

Biography
Yingluck Shinawatra was born in Sam Kamphaeng, Thailand in 1967 to a wealthy family of Hakka Chinese descent. She followed her brother Thaksin Shinawatra into the business world, and she also became involved in politics with the Pheu Thai Party. She won the 2011 elections in a landslide with promises of national reconciliation, poverty eradication, and corporate income tax reduction. Yingluck became a controversial figure due to her government's purchase of rice at inflated prices from the farmers, only to let it rot; this triggered mass protests against her government in 2013. She called for a snap election while remaining the caretaker Prime Minister, but, on 7 May 2014, the Constitutional Court removed her from office. In May 2014, the military under Prayut Chan-o-cha overthrew acting Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan and arrested Yingluck and several other government figures as they seized power, and she was put on trial in 2016. She fled the country in August 2017, fleeing to London and serving as chairwoman of a Chinese port operator in Guangdong.